A true crime story discovered during an ancestry search unfolds mystery, intrique and an overdue healing process.

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 6, 2010 -- Originally, New York resident and co-author of “Coldspring” Cheri Mancuso was simply searching for answers about her mysterious aunt in the family photo album that no other family members ever mentioned. But after nearly a decade of detailed investigative research, Cheri and her partner and co-author of “Coldspring” John Scarano discovered so much more in relation to her mysterious aunt Bernice Kenyon Farnsworth.

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A true crime story discovered during an ancestry search unfolds mystery, intrique and an overdue healing process.

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http://www.Coldspring.co

The Coldspring book (www.TheColdspring.com) took off when Mancuso, a native of Salamanca, NY, asked a friend who was a private detective to help her find her family in Randolph, NY. That request brought down a landslide of information concerning the Farnsworth murders. Eventually their research led them to local libraries where Mancuso and John Scarano found reports of two other sets of murders that occurred in the same area with the same weapon – an ax.

A Seneca Indian Guide recited the legend of the first set of murders in Coldspring to a Holland Company surveyor in 1799. The second set of murders in Coldspring/Steamburg was reported in many local papers in 1873. The book culminates in 1935 with the murder of Bernice Kenyon Farnsworth and her husband, Harry who was an ex-convict and 20 years her junior.

The gruesome murders of the newly married couple created a huge sensation throughout the Southern Tier after the bodies were discovered on March 9, 1935. Quickly, as word spread, it became national news. New York State Troopers immediately mounted what was, at that time, the largest manhunt in the history of the State of New York for murder suspect, Freddy Lindsay. Lindsay was Harry Farnsworth’s former cellmate at Great Meadow Prison.

But the real beauty of this well written novel (Coldspring) is that it has brought healing to Mancuso’s family, to the murderer’s family and even to the family of the murderer’s defending Attorney, G. Sydney Shane.
October 2 they plan to have a big reunion inviting everyone from around the county area.
Mancuso and Scarano also reside part time in their Los Angeles, CA home.

Mancuso and Scarano will be releasing book two, "Coldspring, The Trial," soon and there are plans for a third book, "Coldspring, The Resolution."

Coldspring is sold at all Waldenbook stores, online and found at the Randolph Library

Contact: cindy@collinsapr.com

More information can be found online at http://www.Coldspring.co

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